meet the pixies

A pixie is an AI agent that lives on your canvas as a small sprite. You talk to it in the dock; it reads what is on the canvas, adds and wires nodes, runs models, looks at the results and tells you what it found.

Pixies are single-purpose. A new kind of work is meant to get a new pixie, so one stays good at one thing and remembers it.

how it fits

• A pixie works in a canvas. It can see the nodes there, and if it stands inside a zone it works in that zone.
• It is driven from the dock chat: chat. How much it does on its own is set by its working mode.
• What it can do depends on its skills and tools.
• A resident pixie lives inside another thing: a process, a sandbox, a 3D model or an image composer.
• Anything it needs from you waits in the inbox.

the pixies you meet

pixie	where it lives	what it does
general pixie	on a canvas, as a sprite	your companion: researches, plans, builds and runs
process resident	inside a process	owns the recipe and works every run of it
sandbox dev	in a sandbox's workspace	writes and fixes the sandbox's code
modeler	in a 3D model's workspace	builds the model's operations and checks they evaluate
designer	in an image composer's workspace	edits the composition's layers
postie	on a postie node	schedules and posts to social accounts; doesn't make content
keeper	on a table	keeps the table's rows in order; doesn't make content

Residents are always in Executing mode: doing the work is their job, so there is no mode to pick. You can reach them from the node they live in, or from the inbox.

the facts people trip over

Every pixie has its own name and look. It is born with a first name such as Pip, Boba or Suki, drawn from a pool of 80, and a sprite generated from that name. After it claims a process it earns an epithet: Pip the Painter. Click the name in the header of the full chat thread to rename it.

Names are unique across your organisation. Not just on one canvas. A name always points to exactly one pixie, because that name is also an email address.

Each pixie has its own address. <name>.<org-slug>@ixi.so. Only members of your organisation can write to it. See inbox and email.

A pixie remembers. It saves short notes about what works: your taste, prompts that paid off, pitfalls. Open the book icon in the header of the full chat thread to read them. Each note holds up to 2,000 characters. The memory belongs to the pixie, not the canvas.

Pixies spend credits. Each turn of a conversation costs a small amount, and the models they run cost what they normally cost. See what a pixie turn costs.

where to go next

• Start talking: chat.
• Decide how much freedom to give: working modes.
• See the full list of what pixies can do: skills and tools.